Oregon and Stanford, the Pac-12′s two best teams and the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the conference tournament, respectively, each of the last two years will duel it out again in the Pac-12 Tournament championship game on Sunday (5 p.m., ESPN2).

Oregon (29-3) has won the last two meetings, a 77-57 win in last year’s Pac-12 Tournament title game and a 88-48 mauling in Palo Alto earlier this season.

It was a banner performance for the Ducks and also the biggest margin of defeat loss in the storied career of Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer.

“Oregon has a great team, we know this,” VanDerveer said. “... They have terrific players, a great system. They’ve demonstrated that throughout the whole year. We’re here to battle and I’m really excited about how much our team has improved, how hard we’re working. We were in the same situation last year and we’re going to learn from the good things that we did and we’re going to learn from the mistakes we made but I have a lot of confidence in our team and our players and we’re going to play our game.”

The lopsided wins aren’t impacting how the Ducks view the Cardinal.

“I think we got to forget about the last game,” said Ruthy Hebard, who had 18 points and eight rebounds in that win. “We beat them by 40 but they’re a better team now and it’s the Pac-12 championship; it’s March, anything can happen. We got to come out, play basketball and hopefully get the win.”

Oregon, which defeated Arizona and UCLA to reach the final, is expecting Stanford (27-4) to be more than motivated.

“Stanford will be mad at us,” forward Satou Sabally said. “We beat them at home by 40 so they will want to come out strong against us. … We’re ready to face Stanford. There’s always a big rivalry. Even for last year, we won against them in the final with a lot of points.”

Oregon will be playing not only to repeat as Pac-12 Tournament champions but to make its case to move up to being a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament later this month.

Stanford was slotted as the No. 2 seed in the Chicago Regional in the NCAA selection committee’s last early look at the top 16 seeds and could make its own case for a better seed with a win.

“We didn’t come out ready to play them Oregon’s a great team and we came out kind of flat and they took advantage of that,” Stanford forward Maya Dodson said. “(We) learned from that game, but it’s in the past and I think we’re ready now as long as we play our game.”